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by Peter Furtado


  Charlemagne 237

  Charles Bridge, Prague 247

  Charles I, King of England 175, 311

  Charles II, King of England 97, 208

  Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor 247, 250

  Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor 110, 190

  Charlottenburg Palace 60, 62

  Chateaubriand, Francois-René, vicomte de 33, 152

  Cheapside, London 238

  Chekhov, Anton 243, 338

  Chesneau, Jean 142

  Chicago 79–87

  Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage (Byron) 35

  Chinatown, San Francisco 291

  Chiu T’ang shu 138

  Christmas 337, 338

  Christmas Carol, A (Charles Dickens) 267

  Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem 147, 150, 151

  Cion, Laurentius 111

  Circular Quay, Sydney 300

  Clark, Eleanor 270

  Clavijo, Ruy González de 283

  Clemens, Samuel Langhorne see Twain, Mark

  Cleopatra 17, 18, 19, 330

  Cold War 67, 334

  Colosseum, Rome 265, 269, 271

  Constantine, Emperor 146, 148, 262, 269

  Constantinople see Istanbul

  Cooper, James Fenimore 218

  Cortés, Hernán 190, 192

  Coryat, Thomas 237

  Coryat’s Crudities (Thomas Coryat) 237

  Crown of Thorns 236

  Crusades 147, 149, 153, 234

  Ctesiphon 48

  Cultural Revolution (China) 50, 122

  Custine, Astolphe-Louis-Léonor, Marquis de 201, 277

  Czechoslovakia 248

  Dadu see Beijing

  Dalai Lama 156, 157, 159, 160

  Damascus 7, 88–96, 284

  Danckaerts, Jasper 225

  Danseh 74

  Dante Alighieri 271

  Danube river 333, 334

  Danzig 23

  ‘Death in the Soul’ (Albert Camus) 251

  Demoiselles d’Avignon (Pablo Picasso) 244

  Denon, Vivant 17

  Description of Greece (Pausanias) 32

  Detroit 80

  Diaghilev, Sergei 280

  Dicaearchus of Messana 31

  Dickens, Charles 227, 267

  Diplomat in Japan, A (Ernest Mason Satow) 312

  Djenne 306, 307

  Doge, Venice 323, 325

  Dome of the Rock 147, 151

  Dublin 97–106

  Dudley, Robert, Earl of Leicester 21

  Dwight, Theodore 345

  Earthquake 111, 293, 315

  East Germany 61

  East India Company, British 207, 208, 209, 311

  East India Company, Dutch (VOC) 26, 53, 117

  Eastern Journey (John MacCallum Scott) 211

  Edo see Tokyo

  Edward I, King of England 235

  Eiffel Tower 243

  Eighth Avenue, New York 232

  Eisengieserei, Berlin 64

  El Retiro, Mexico City 196

  Elgin Marbles 35

  Elizabeth, Empress of Russia 274

  Empire Windrush (ship) 164, 172

  English Quay, St Petersburg 275

  Eothen, or, Traces of Travel (Alexander Kinglake) 143

  Erasmus, Desiderius 27

  Erskine Inglis, Fanny see Calderón de la Barca, Frances

  Escorial 174

  Evelyn, John 325

  Evening Post 176

  Exposition Universelle, Paris 243

  Faisal, King 48

  Fascism 262, 270

  Fatimid Dynasty 70

  Fawcett, Percy 259

  Ferdinand IV, King of Naples 217, 218

  Fermor, Patrick Leigh 340

  festivals 74

  Fifth Avenue, New York 230

  First Opium War 116

  First World War 61, 71, 180, 235, 248

  Flaubert, Gustave 74

  Flecker, James Elroy 283

  Fleming, Ian 135

  Fleming, Peter 259

  Florence 107–15

  Florence Cathedral 110

  Floridita restaurant, Havana 127

  Following the Equator (Mark Twain) 300

  Ford, Henry 87

  Ford, Richard 176

  Forty Thousand Miles Over Land and Water (Mrs Howard Vincent) 82

  Forum, Rome 266

  Fourth Crusade 321

  Franciabigio 114

  Francis I, King of France 235

  Francklin, William 208

  Franco, Francisco 174

  Fraser, G. S. 77

  Fraser, Mary Crawford 315

  Frederick III, Duke of Holstein 198

  Frederick III, King of Hungary 334

  Frederick the Great of Prussia 64, 344

  Frederick William II of Prussia 60

  French Revolution 235

  Frenchman’s Walk through Ireland, A (de La Tocnaye) 101

  Fu-lin 138

  Galata, Istanbul 140

  Gateway of India, Mumbai 212

  Geographia (Strabo) 13

  George IV, King of Great Britain 164, 168, 169

  George St, Sydney 300

  Georgetown, Washington 343

  German Empire 61

  Gibbon, Edward 266

  Giotto di Bondone 110

  Giudecca, Venice 327, 328

  Giza 70, 71, 77

  Godunov, Boris, Grand Duke 199

  Goethe, Johann von 66, 326

  Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco 287

  Golden Gate Park, San Francisco 294

  ‘Golden Road to Samarkand’ (James Elroy Flecker) 283

  Golgotha 148

  Government House, Sydney 301

  Goyer, Peter de 53, 117

  Graham, Maria 255

  Granada 191

  Grand Canal, Venice 327, 328

  Grand Tour 8, 107, 109, 217, 235, 250, 322

  Great Fire of Chicago 79, 82, 85

  Greene, Graham 127, 194

  Gregory the Great, Pope 264

  Gris, Juan 245

  Guangzhou 116–23

  Guayaquil river 125

  Guinness Brewery, Dublin 105, 106

  Gur-I Amir Mausoleum, Samarkand 282

  Gyantse 159

  Habsburg dynasty 333

  Hadrian, Emperor 30, 32, 146

  Hagia Sophia, Istanbul 138, 140, 142, 165

  Haight-Ashbury, San Francisco 294

  Hajj 11, 181

  Hamlet (Shakespeare) 24

  Han dynasty 49

  Harlem, New York 226

  Harrer, Heinrich 160

  Harun al-Rashid, caliph 40

  Haussmann, Baron 235

  Havana 124–29, 189

  Hedin, Sven 159

  Henry II, King of France 238

  Henry III, King of Castile 283

  Henry IV, King of France 237

  Heracleides of Crete 31

  Hermitage, St Petersburg 274

  Herodotus 8

  Hippodrome, Constantinople 139

  Hiroshima 320

  History of the Crusades, A (Steven Runciman) 145

  History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, The (Edward Gibbon) 266

  Hitler, Adolf 61, 64, 66, 67

  Hoboken, New Jersey 226

  Hodges, Ellen G. 290

  Hogg, Thomas Jefferson 328

  Holy Roman Empire 333

  Holy Trinity Church, Chicago 81

  Hong Kong 117, 130–36, 290

  Hoskins, George 75

  Hotel de Ville, Paris 240

  Hudson river 230

  Hulagu, Khan 40

  Human Be-In 294–96

  Humboldt, Alexander von 125

  Hus, Jan 247

  Ibn Battuta 8, 72, 89, 139, 182

  Ibn Taymiyya, Taqi al-Dan 89, 90

  IJ river 21, 26, 27

  Il Milione (Marco Polo) 50

  Illinois Central Railway Depot 81

  Inner Life of Syria, Palestine, and the Holy Land, The (Isabel Burton) 92

  Innocent I
II, Pope 348

  Innocents Abroad (Mark Twain) 241

  Iraq 41

  Ireland, Samuel 24

  Islam 18, 19

  Israel 147, 154

  Istanbul (Constantinople, Byzantium) 11, 43, 137–45, 340

  Italian Journey (Johann von Goethe) 326

  Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela, The 41, 139

  Jacob, Max 245

  Jakarta 53

  James, Henry 331

  Jeddah (Jidda) 184

  Jericho 7

  Jerusalem 8, 140, 146–55, 236

  Jesus 146, 148, 150

  Ji see Beijing

  Jo Khang Temple, Lhasa 159

  Johnson, Samuel 250

  Journal from Japan (Marie Stopes) 316

  Journal of a Tour in Egypt, Palestine, Syria, and Greece (James Laird Patterson) 17

  Julian, Emperor 8

  Julius Caesar (William Shakespeare) 164

  Justinian, Emperor 138

  Kaaba 181, 185, 186, 187

  Kangaroo (D. H. Lawrence) 302

  Karkh 42, 43

  Karlskirche, Vienna 341

  Kawaguchi, Ekai 158

  Kennan, George 67

  Keyzer, Jakob de 53, 117

  Kham 159

  Khanbaliq see Beijing

  Khusraw, Nasir 71, 148

  King David Hotel, Jerusalem 154

  Kinglake, Alexander 143

  Kipling, Rudyard 83

  Kleinseit, Prague 248, 249

  Knossos 9

  Kojimachi, Tokyo 315

  Kok Saray, Samarkand 285

  Königsberg 23

  Kotel Hamaaravi, Jerusalem 155

  Kremlin, Moscow 197, 199, 203

  Kronstadt 277

  Kublai Khan 50, 52

  Kunitake, Kume 289

  Kurfurstendamm, Berlin 65

  Kusam ibn ‘Abbas 285

  Kyoto 310, 311, 313

  L’Enfant, Pierre Charles 342

  Labaume, Eugène 200

  La Boullaye Le Gouz, François de 98

  Lamont, Corless 281

  Lapo, Arnolfo di 110

  Largo da Paco, Rio 257

  Lassels, Richard 109

  La Tocnaye, Jacques-Louis de Bourgrenet de 101

  Lawless Roads, The (Graham Greene) 194

  Lawrence, D. H. 302

  Leningrad see St Petersburg

  Leo Africanus 304

  Leo III, Pope 269

  Lewis, Norman 222

  Lhasa 156–62

  Liberties, Dublin 102, 105

  Life in Mexico (Francis Calderón de la Barca) 192

  Liffey river, Dublin 105

  Lives of the Painters (Leon Battista Alberti) 110

  London 9, 84, 163–73, 290

  Lonely Londoners, The (Sam Selvon) 172

  Louis Bonaparte 27

  Louis IX (St Louis), King of France 234, 240, 348

  Louis XIV, King of France 235

  Louis XV, King of France 235

  Louis XVI, King of France 235, 240

  Louvre, Paris 234, 238, 240, 242

  Ludovico of Varthema 183

  Lutetia see Paris

  Machu Picchu 9

  Madison, James 346

  Madrid 174–80

  Mahratta empire 209

  Malabar Hill, Mumbai 211, 214

  Mangalore, siege of 209

  Manhattan 225, 230

  Manning, Thomas 157

  Mansa, Suleyman 304

  Mao Zedong 50, 59, 60

  Maraini, Fosco 319

  Marie Antoinette, Queen of France 238, 240

  Mark Anthony 17

  markets, bazaars 18, 91, 92–94, 143–45, 171, 190–91, 195, 200, 205, 221, 228, 248, 256, 258, 284, 290, 306, 324, 337

  Marvels of Rome (Anon) 262

  McCarthy, Mary 113

  Mecca 11, 19, 72, 181–88

  Mecca Flats, Chicago 85

  Medina 182, 188

  Meeting with Japan (Fosco Maraini) 319

  Mehmed IV, Sultan 333, 334

  Mehmet II, Sultan 143

  Melbourne 297

  Memoirs (Edward Gibbon) 266

  Merwanjee, Curtsetjee 211

  Mesopotamia 11, 41

  Metternich, Prince and Princess 338

  Mexican-American War 287

  Mexico City 189–96

  Michelangelo Buonarotti 108, 110, 111

  Michelozzo 113, 114

  Michigan Avenue, Chicago 80, 86

  Michou, Matthieu de 198

  Mikhail I, Tsar 198

  Miller, Anna 111

  Miller, Henry 85

  Minas Gerais 256

  Ming dynasty 50, 53, 116

  Mirza’s Bath, Samarkand 286

  missionaries 91, 290

  Moldau river see Vltava river

  Mole, Naples 219

  Mongols 40, 43, 50, 236, 282

  Monroe, James 345

  Montague, Lady Mary Wortley 335

  Montaigne, Michel de 108, 265, 268, 269

  Montezuma, Emperor 192, 193, 195

  Montmartre, Paris 244

  Morris, Jan 347

  Moryson, Fynes 21, 248

  Moscow 197–206

  Moscow Admits a Critic (Bernard Pares) 204

  Moses 348

  Moskva river 199, 200

  Mosque of the Footprints, (al-Aqsam), Damascus 90

  Mount Cashell, Lord and Lady 61

  Mount of Olives 148, 150

  Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus 334

  Mu’jam ul-Buldan (Geographical Encyclopedia), Yaqut al-Hamawi 42

  Muhammad (Mohamed, Mahomet) 11, 147, 181, 184, 185, 186

  Muhammad Ali 13

  Mumbai 207–15

  Mundy, Peter 22

  Murad II, Sultan 142

  Murdoch St, Sydney 302

  Murray, John III 25

  Muscovy 197

  museums 47, 63, 178, 180, 331

  Mussolini, Benito 223

  Mustanseriya, Baghdad 45

  My Life (Leon Trotsky) 180

  Nagasaki 316, 320

  Naipaul, V. S. 213

  Nanjing (Nanking) 50, 53

  Naples 216–23

  Napoleon Bonaparte 16, 33, 61, 64, 66, 71, 152, 169, 197, 200, 203, 235, 239, 348

  Napoleon III, Emperor of France 235, 239, 240

  Napoleonic Wars 16, 21, 102

  Nash, John 168, 169

  Nasser, Gamal Abdel 13

  Nelson, Horatio 103

  Nero, Emperor 263

  Netherlands 21

  Neva river 272, 274

  New Amsterdam see New York City

  New Deal 85

  New Museum, Berlin 63

  New Orleans 288

  New York City 9, 176, 224–33, 290

  Nicholas I, Tsar 204

  Niebuhr, Carsten 184

  Nieuw Markt, Amsterdam 22

  Nieuwe Kerk, Amsterdam 21

  Niger river 304

  Nile, river 14, 15, 38, 72, 73, 77

  Norman Conquest 163

  Normandy 74

  Notre Dame, Paris 237, 240

  O-kon-to see Alexandria

  Observations and Reflections (Hester Lynch Piozzi) 250

  Olearius, Adam 198

  Olympic Games 61, 64, 54

  Opium 118

  Orient, orientalism 10, 18, 71, 121

  Ottomans, Turks 13, 31, 35, 71, 138, 248, 283, 333, 335

  Owens, Jesse 66

  Palace Hotel, San Francisco 290, 293

  Palaces 27, 43, 52, 62, 71, 141, 142, 156, 238, 274, 279, 280

  Palazzo Guicciardini, Florence 114

  Palmer House, Chicago 83, 85

  Pares, Bernard 204

  Paris 8, 234–46, 290

  Parliament House, Dublin 99

  Parsis 208, 214

  Parthenon, Athens 31, 35, 38

  Patterson, James Laird 17, 37, 90

  Paul, R. B. 276

  Pausanias 32

  Pekin, Peking see Beijing

  Peking restaurant, Hong Kong 136


  Pericles 32, 34

  Perry, Helen 294

  Perry, Matthew 310

  Persia 11, 42, 47, 71, 138

  Peter I ‘the Great’, Tsar 272, 273, 279

  Petrograd see St Petersburg

  Petrovski, Moscow 202

  Pharos, Alexandria 12, 15, 16

  Pheidias 33

  Pheonix Park, Dublin 104

  Philadelphia 290

  Philip II (Augustus), King of France 238

  Philip II, King of Spain 174

  Philip IV, King of France 235, 236

  Philip of Macedon 33

  Phillips, Capt Arthur 254, 297, 298

  Picasso, Pablo 244, 245, 246

  pilgrimage 149, 150, 182, 186–88, 262, 264

  Pilgrimage to Jerusalem (Pietro Casola) 149

  Pinto, Fernão Mendes 51

  Piozzi, Hester Lynch (Hester Lynch Thrale) 250

  Piraeus 38

  Pitt Street, Sydney 300

  Pitti Palace, Florence 114, 115

  Place de la Concorde, Paris 235, 240

  Plato 39

  Platter, Thomas 164

  Plaza del Oriente, Madrid 177

  Plaza Major, Madrid 177

  Polo, Marco 8, 50

  Pompeii 216

  Pompey’s Pillar, Alexandria 18

  Pont Neuf, Paris 237

  Ponte Vecchio, Florence 114

  Pontius Pilate 148

  Pontormo 114

  Port Jackson see Sydney

  Porta Romana, Florence 114

  Porter, Robert Ker 274

  Portraits of Places (Henry James) 331

  Portuguese Israelite Hospital (PIZ), Amsterdam 28

  Potala Palace, Tibet 156, 157, 161

  Potomac river 343, 344, 347

  Potsdam 61, 344

  Prado, Madrid 174, 176, 177

  Prague 247–52

  Praxiteles 32

  Prince Regent see George IV, King of Great Britain

  processions, ceremonies 41, 98

  Propylaeum, Athens 63

  prostitutes 24

  Prussia 60

  Ptolemais 33

  Ptolemy 14

  Pückler-Muskau, Hermann von 102, 168

  Pyramids 15

  Qala’un, al-Mansur, Sultan 73

  Qing dynasty 50, 117, 156, 159

  Rabban Bar Sauma 8

  Ramadan 19, 42

  Rasp-house, Amsterdam 25

  Red Army 61, 156

  Regent’s Park, London 169

  Rembrandt van Rijn 21, 23, 25, 100, 180

  Revolt of the Netherlands 20

  Rialto bridge, Venice 328

  Ribera, Juan Antonio 180

  Rio de Janiero 125, 253–60

  Riva degli Schiavoni (Venice) 332

  Rive Gauche, Paris 235

  Road to Oxiana, The (Robert Byron) 47

  Rockefeller, John D. 87

  Rome 7, 8, 9, 39, 261–71

  Rubens, Peter Paul 180

  Rue de Rivoli, Paris 240, 242

  Runciman, Steven 145

  Ruskin, John 329

  Sacramento 288

  Safarnama (Nasir Khusraw) 71, 148

  St Basil’s Cathedral, Moscow 203

  St Denis Basilica, Paris 234

  St Elmo castle, Naples 219

  St John the Baptist 91

  St Mark’s Cathedral and Piazza, Venice 268, 322, 325, 327, 328, 329, 330, 332

 

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